Comparison of adjoint-based and feature-based grid adaptation for functional outputs

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1109-1130

  Balasubramanian, Ravishankar ^a,b   Newman III, James C ^a,b,c  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; ERROR CORRECTION; LAMINAR FLOW; LIFT; TURBULENT FLOW;

DRAG COEFFICIENTS; MACH NUMBERS; RESIDUAL ERRORS; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845407618     PISSN: 10485953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-3314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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